Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Love truth, but pardon error.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.